بلاد اسلامیہ

جس کے غنچے تھے چمن ساماں، وہ گلشن ہے یہیکاپنتا تھا جن سے روما، ان کا مدفن ہے یہی

English translation

The garden whose flower buds were the garden’s wealth is this. The graveyard of those who made Rome tremble is this.
(Allusion to the struggle of the Muslim mujahids whose struggle in the cause of God and Islam shook up and ultimately destroyed the Eastern or the Byzantine part of the Roman Empire.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

چمن ساماں: باغ کا ساز و سامان رکھنے والا یعنی باغ کے برابر۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 of 22 in “⁨بلاد اسلامیہ⁩” (The Islamic Cities) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۸ / ۲۲